Bathing - the Body and Community Care

Existing literature on the body for the most part ignores the body in old age, unlike this text

Our book takes a new look at the realities of community care - how it involves dealing with incontinence, decay, death, which most accounts gloss over

Timely and topical in view of the current debate about provision and payment for 'personal care'

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Bathing - the Body and Community Care

Existing literature on the body for the most part ignores the body in old age, unlike this text

Our book takes a new look at the realities of community care - how it involves dealing with incontinence, decay, death, which most accounts gloss over

Timely and topical in view of the current debate about provision and payment for 'personal care'

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Bathing - the Body and Community Care

Bathing - the Body and Community Care

by Julia Twigg
Bathing - the Body and Community Care

Bathing - the Body and Community Care

by Julia Twigg

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Overview

Existing literature on the body for the most part ignores the body in old age, unlike this text

Our book takes a new look at the realities of community care - how it involves dealing with incontinence, decay, death, which most accounts gloss over

Timely and topical in view of the current debate about provision and payment for 'personal care'


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134629541
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/04/2002
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 571 KB

About the Author

Julia Twigg, University of Kent, UK

Table of Contents

Preface 1 The body in community care 2 Cultures of bathing and the body in High Modernity 3 Bathing, washing and the management of personal care 4 The spatial and temporal ordering of care 5 The medical/social boundary and the rationalisation of community care 6 The employment world of the careworker 7 Carework as bodywork 8 Carework as emotional labour 19 The power dynamics of care
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